The US government has killed 223 people in Yemen in more than 40 drone strikes in 2012, according to estimates from the Long War Journal. The Long War Journal is a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neo-conservative think-tank in Washington, DC...
A Chinese think-tank (via Zero Hedge) has predicted that military conflict between China and Japan is inevitable now, thanks in part to US meddling in the Asia-Pacific region. With the rise of China as Asia's leading economic power, a Chinese government think tank...
The state structures built in Iraq by the US military occupation are now the depraved tools of repression. First among these tools is the US-trained and equipped Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF). By the time Washington was preparing to draw down forces in Iraq,...
This week’s top news stories: Yemen Fears Backlash as Drone Strike Victims Side With al-Qaeda: In early September, Yemeni officials sought to bury stories about a US drone strike killing 14 civilians in an attack on a highway by insisting they were actually their own...
“We have to produce security, not consume security." It's a statement beautiful in its simplicity, and straightforwardness. Security is desirable - we all want to be secure, let us produce some security. In context it is also a statement horrifying in its...
IN THIS ISSUETop NewsOpinion and analysisSign the petition to support Chuck Hagel:Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, Obama’s rumored nominee for Secretary of Defense, is getting smeared by the Israel Lobby. Go here to sign the White House petition written up by...
I have gotten so many letters about our campaign to fight the smear campaign against Chuck Hagel that I can’t possibly respond to them individually, and so I’m taking to the Antiwar.com blog to answer and to give our readers and supporters an update. It is now Day...
FBI Wades Into Obama’s Commutation Process The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel recently forced the CIA to release additional content from its 1987 Jonathan Pollard espionage damage assessment report (PDF). The National Security Archive – which...
According to a recent Congressional Research Service report (via Secrecy News), the Obama administration's working policy is that US officials can disclose classified information (to reporters, and others) so long as it suits the needs of the government. The...
The Israel lobby’s smear campaign against Chuck Hagel is an absolute outrage: they are hurling every mudball they can get their hands on at him, and of course the main charge is “anti-Semitism” – because he wont’ kowtow to the Lobby and proudly declares that, while he...
